Serial killer ‘was too aroused by violence to rape’

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Peter Manuel, Scotland’s most notorious serial killer, was a violent sex offender who turned to murder to satisfy his increasingly depraved urges.

However, a new book claims that he suffered from a severe sexual disorder and may not have carried out the rape that predated his spree of violence.

Manuel was the third-last person to be hanged in Scotland when he was executed at Barlinnie Prison in July 1958.

Allan Nichol, author of Manuel: Scotland’s First Serial Killer, now believes that Manuel suffered from paraphilia - the need for abnormal stimulus to achieve full sexual gratification. In Manuel’s case he was